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Congestant alii sclopos, quos nuper aratro
Assueti, carbo bene vix displodere norunt.
Assueti, carbo bene vix displodere norunt.
The Bellum Bothwelianum, from which this passage is extracted, is of considerable length, and mentions some minute circumstances of the engagement. One passage is curious:
Fama refert, stolidâ captum vertigine cœtum,
Sublimem erexisse crucem, de sorte futurâ
Non dubium, quâ hostes possit suspendere captos.
Sublimem erexisse crucem, de sorte futurâ
Non dubium, quâ hostes possit suspendere captos.
After this poem follows "Velitatio Cameroniana, sive, Appendix Belli Bothweliani." The other poems of Guild are chiefly complimentary or valedictory. One of them is addressed to Sir Robert Dalyell. The author appears to have been educated at Aberdeen.
Colville, in his Scotish Hudibras, and afterwards Meston, in his "Knight," both allude to the spirit of resistance displayed by the Presbyterians. The latter thus describes "the Souterkin of reformation:"
In his broad hat, instead of feather,
The league and covenant together
He tied, and under hat-band sticked,
And wore them like a burgess ticket.
A pair of gauntlet gloves he had
For boxing, and for preaching made,
With which he dealt his deadly blows,
And thumped the pulpit and his foes.
Well versed he was in both the trades
Of handling texts and rusty blades:
The league and covenant together
He tied, and under hat-band sticked,
And wore them like a burgess ticket.
A pair of gauntlet gloves he had
For boxing, and for preaching made,
With which he dealt his deadly blows,
And thumped the pulpit and his foes.
Well versed he was in both the trades
Of handling texts and rusty blades:
